Christopher: The 2nd graders won their soccer game 6-0. Christopher played well in his only quarter that he saw any real action; for the most part, we kept the ball in the other team's half of the field so if you played defense or goalie, you had a pretty boring day.
Matthew: Started off the 1st grade season with a large-number-to-one game. Kevin taped the game, so, we'll hopefully get that online sometime soon. Matthew had many moments, I think one highlight was when he saved the ball from going into the goal and dribbled it all the way through to the other end for a goal.
Kevin: Last of the fall tennis tournaments was Saturday and the less said about it the better....a lot of regression in the progress we've made, and a whole lot of discussion about what Kevin really wants to accomplish here. Oh well....
Autumn Classic: Sunday morning was the 8K Autumn Classic at Lake Lansing North. Christopher and Matthew did the kids 1/2 mile; Matthew proudly announces "I was eighth!"...Christopher was about 20 seconds behind Matthew.
I'll use this analogy, Matthew's like a Porsche, speedy, flashy in turns, good moves and a strong burst of energy, nice compact running form, etc. Christopher is like a truck...you get him up to speed, you'd better get out of the way. There was a moment in Saturday's game when the ball was at one end of the field and someone kicked it out so that it was at the complete other end....of course, the kids were all bunched up, so, it's this huge sprint to get to the ball first. Christopher wasn't the first kid out of that pack heading towards the ball, but, he was the first one to get there.
Kevin did the 8K. And did awesome, finished in 41 minutes and change. He was a sweaty mess at the end. Said he finished the first mile at 7:20, and was at 32:00 at 4 miles. We had a long talk about what he should try to do, Suzanne though 9 minute miles might be a better goal, I thought 8 minute miles (he does 7 minute miles for the 2 mile cross country meets) and was happy to see him end up more towards 8 than 9.
